Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. is an innovative teacher in the contemporary spiritual and psychotherapy fields. She developed Realization Process, a method of realizing fundamental (non-dual) consciousness, and applying it to psychological and physical healing, and has taught it for twenty-five years throughout the United States and at Esalen Institute in California since 1987. She is on the faculty of The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and SUNY Empire State College. She has her Masters in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Union Institute & University. She trained at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City. She has twenty-five years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and is licensed in New York. She has been a meditation practitioner and student of contemplative traditions for over thirty years.